please help php error

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WoW Me Web Girl 0 Light Poster

14 Years Ago

I started a comments page on my website and the comments work fine and go through. But after you submit the comment the out put displays like this on my webpage:

comments:
"heartbeaker" by: jamika
@ 12:30:00 am on March 11, 2010.
Fear<br /> There are two flip sides, to every angle in life. <br /> Some ride these angles like wheels on a bike.<br /> Others are afraid, that the world ,will see their insides.<br /> So they cower, head bowed, and runaway from the light.<br /> <br />

How do i get the </br> to not show up when my user submits there comment. I assume their hitting the enter key. I dont want it to so the HTML.

Please Help thanks

php

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liamfriel 4 Junior Poster

14 Years Ago

where ever you print our comment use html_entity_decode(); function i.e.

echo html_entity_decode($comment);

TeddyKiller 0 Newbie Poster

14 Years Ago

It's an echo, so when you display the comments, you use the line liam put.

TeddyKiller 0 Newbie Poster

14 Years Ago

echo '<td colspan="2"> '.stripslashes($info2->comment).' </td>';

Displays the comment right? well change it to...

echo '<td colspan="2"> '.html_entity_decode(stripslashes($info2->comment)).' </td>';

That should work.

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WoW Me Web Girl 0 Light Poster · Answer 1 · 2010-03-11T20:23:15+00:00

WoW Me Web Girl 0 Light Poster

14 Years Ago

where do i add this code liam

WoW Me Web Girl 0 Light Poster · Answer 2 · 2010-03-11T23:32:11+00:00

It's an echo, so when you display the comments, you use the line liam put.

here is the code im working with. where should i put liam echo code.

//connect to your database

//query comments for this page of this article
$inf = "SELECT * FROM `comments` WHERE page = '".stripslashes($_SERVER)."' ORDER BY time ASC";
$info = mysql_query($inf);
if(!$info) die(mysql_error());

$info_rows = mysql_num_rows($info);
if($info_rows > 0) {
echo '<h5>Comments:</h5>';
echo '<table width="95%">';

while($info2 = mysql_fetch_object($info)) {
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>"'.stripslashes($info2->subject).'" by: <a href="'.$info2->contact.'">'.stripslashes($info2->username).'</a></td> <td><div align="right"> @ '.date('h:i:s a', $info2->time).' on '.$info2->date.'</div></td>';
echo '</tr><tr>';
echo '<td colspan="2"> '.stripslashes($info2->comment).' </td>';
echo '</tr>';
}//end while
echo '</table>';
echo '<hr width="95%" noshade>';
} else echo 'No comments for this page. Feel free to be the first <br>';

if(isset($_POST)) {
if(!addslashes($_POST)) die('<u>ERROR:</u> you must enter a username to add a comment.');
if(!addslashes($_POST)) die('<u>ERROR:</u> enter contact method in contact field.');
if(!addslashes($_POST)) die('<u>ERROR:</u> enter a subject to your comment.');
if(!addslashes($_POST)) die('<u>ERROR:</u> cannot add comment if you do not enter one!?');

WoW Me Web Girl 0 Light Poster · Answer 3 · 2010-03-12T11:34:57+00:00

That should work.

nope still has a break</br> after every line. im going to show you the whole code maybe its something at the bottom.

<? ob_start(); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>www.PoetryBattles.com/poetry works.html</title>
<style type="text/css">
#header {
    position:absolute;
    left:100px;
    top:0px;
    width:800px;
    height:17px;
    z-index:1;
    background-color: #0d0600;
}
#content {
    position:absolute;
    left:4px;
    top:1px;
    width:1161px;
    height:4095px;
    z-index:2;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-image: url(poetryworks%20bg.png);
}
#cgi {
    position: absolute;
    left: -84px;
    top: 470px;
    width: 553px;
    height: 428px;
}
#form {
    position: absolute;
    left: 282px;
    top: 190px;
    width: 166px;
    height: 47px;
}
#links22 {
    position: absolute;
    left: 759px;
    top: 4066px;
    width: 68px;
    z-index: 4;
}
#link33 {
    position: absolute;
    left: 835px;
    top: 4065px;
    width: 77px;
    z-index: 5;
}
#footer {
    position:absolute;
    left:104px;
    top:4149px;
    width:1030px;
    height:50px;
    z-index:3;
}
#pic {
    height: 465px;
    width: 334px;
    position: absolute;
    left: 532px;
    top: 395px;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 16px;
    text-align: left;
}
body {
    text-align: left;
    background-color: #0d0600;
}
#master {
    width: 1100px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
    margin-left: auto;
    position: relative;
    left: 0px;
    top: 0px;
    background-color: #0d0600;
}
#apDiv1 {
    position:absolute;
    left:1078px;
    top:592px;
    width:2px;
    height:0px;
    z-index:1;
}
#scull {
    position: absolute;
    height: 20px;
    width: 120px;
    left: 463px;
    top: 251px;
}
#apDiv2 {
    position:absolute;
    left:649px;
    top:515px;
    width:311px;
    height:136px;
    z-index:1;
}
a:link {
    color: #996633;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
    color: #996633;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
    color: #663300;
    text-decoration: underline;
}
a:active {
    color: #996633;
    text-decoration: none;
}
#chick {
    position: absolute;
    height: 19px;
    width: 136px;
    left: 718px;
    top: 252px;
}
#lawyer {
    position: absolute;
    height: 22px;
    width: 129px;
    left: 583px;
    top: 250px;
}
#blog {
    position: absolute;
    height: 15px;
    width: 112px;
    left: 633px;
    top: 4066px;
}
#message {
    position: absolute;
    height: 21px;
    width: 105px;
    left: 862px;
    top: 253px;
    z-index: 7;
}
#rights {
    position: absolute;
    height: 15px;
    width: 44px;
    left: 334px;
    top: 4069px;
    z-index: 8;
}
#muffy {
    position: absolute;
    height: 20px;
    width: 93px;
    left: 969px;
    top: 251px;
}
#welcome {
    position: absolute;
    height: 20px;
    width: 43px;
    left: 409px;
    top: 249px;
}
#tilartwork {
    position: absolute;
    height: 15px;
    width: 105px;
    left: 390px;
    top: 4068px;
}
#beauty {
    position: absolute;
    height: 15px;
    width: 121px;
    left: 509px;
    top: 4068px;
    z-index: 3;
}
.style44 {
    color: #996633;
    font-family: Verdana;
    font-size: 14px;
}
.style45 {font-family: "Trebuchet MS"}
.style46 {
    font-size: 16px
}
.style49 {font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; color: #996633; font-size: 14px; }
body,td,th {
    font-family: Trebuchet MS;
    font-size: 16px;
    color: #993300;
}
h1 {
    font-size: 18px;
    color: #00FFFF;
}
.style57 {color: #00FFFF}
a {
    font-size: 16px;
}
</style>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>

<div id="master">

<div id="header"></noscript>
  </div>


<div id="content">
  <div class="style49" id="blog"><a href="published poets.html">Published Poets</a></div>
 <div class="style49" id="tilartwork"><a href="poetry works page.html">Poetry Works</a></div>
 <div class="style44" id="welcome">
   <a href="main.php" class="style45">Home</a></div>
 <div class="style44" id="muffy">
   <a href="about us.html" class="style45">About Us</a></div>
 <div class="style44" id="lawyer">
   <a href="battle page.html" class="style45">Battles Grounds</a></div>


 <div class="style45" id="scull">
   <a href="comments.php" class="style46">Poetry Works</a></div>
 <div class="style44" id="chick">
   <a href="published poets.html" class="style45">Published Poets</a></div>

<?php
    //Local copy

    function BBCode($Text)
        {
            // Replace any html brackets with HTML Entities to prevent executing HTML or script
            // Don't use strip_tags here because it breaks [url] search by replacing & with amp
            $Text = str_replace("<", "&lt;", $Text);
            $Text = str_replace(">", "&gt;", $Text);



            // Set up the parameters for a URL search string
            $URLSearchString = " a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\.\=\_\~\#\'";
            // Set up the parameters for a MAIL search string
            $MAILSearchString = $URLSearchString . " a-zA-Z0-9\.@";

            //Non BB URL Search
            //$Text = eregi_replace("([[:alnum:]]+)://([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]#?/&=])", "<a href=\"\\1://\\2\\3\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\">\\1://\\2\\3</a>", $Text);
            //$Text = eregi_replace("(([a-z0-9_]|\\-|\\.)+@([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]-]))", "<a href=\"mailto:\\1\" target=\"_new\">\\1</a>", $Text);
            if (substr($Text,0, 7) == "http://"){
            $Text = eregi_replace("([[:alnum:]]+)://([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]#?/&=])", "<a href=\"\\1://\\2\\3\">\\1://\\2\\3</a>", $Text);
             // Convert new line chars to html <br /> tags
            $Text = nl2br($Text);
            } else { 
            // Perform URL Search
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/", '<a href="javascript:go(\'$1\',\'new\')">$1</a>', $Text);
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.+?)\[/url\])", '<a href="javascript:go(\'$1\',\'new\')">$2</a>', $Text);
            //$Text = preg_replace("(\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[/url\])", '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$2</a>', $Text);
             // Convert new line chars to html <br /> tags
            $Text = nl2br($Text);
            }
            // Perform MAIL Search
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[mail\]([$MAILSearchString]*)\[/mail\])", '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>', $Text);
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[mail\=([$MAILSearchString]*)\](.+?)\[\/mail\]/", '<a href="mailto:$1">$2</a>', $Text);

            // Check for bold text
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[b\](.+?)\[\/b])is",'<span class="bold">$1</span>',$Text);

            // Check for Italics text
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[i\](.+?)\[\/i\])is",'<span class="italics">$1</span>',$Text);

            // Check for Underline text
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[u\](.+?)\[\/u\])is",'<span class="underline">$1</span>',$Text);

            // Check for strike-through text
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[s\](.+?)\[\/s\])is",'<span class="strikethrough">$1</span>',$Text);

            // Check for over-line text
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[o\](.+?)\[\/o\])is",'<span class="overline">$1</span>',$Text);

            // Check for colored text
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[color=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/color\])is","<span style=\"color: $1\">$2</span>",$Text);

            // Check for sized text
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[size=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/size\])is","<span style=\"font-size: $1px\">$2</span>",$Text);

            // Check for list text
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[list\](.+?)\[\/list\]/is", '<ul class="listbullet">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[list=1\](.+?)\[\/list\]/is", '<ul class="listdecimal">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[list=i\](.+?)\[\/list\]/s", '<ul class="listlowerroman">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[list=I\](.+?)\[\/list\]/s", '<ul class="listupperroman">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[list=a\](.+?)\[\/list\]/s", '<ul class="listloweralpha">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[list=A\](.+?)\[\/list\]/s", '<ul class="listupperalpha">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
            $Text = str_replace("[*]", "<li>", $Text);

            // Check for font change text
            $Text = preg_replace("(\[font=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/font\])","<span style=\"font-family: $1;\">$2</span>",$Text);

            // Declare the format for [code] layout
            $CodeLayout = '<table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                                <tr>
                                    <td class="quotecodeheader"> Code:</td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td class="codebody">$1</td>
                                </tr>
                           </table>';
            // Check for [code] text
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[code\](.+?)\[\/code\]/is","$CodeLayout", $Text);

            // Declare the format for [quote] layout
            $QuoteLayout = '<table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                                <tr>
                                    <td class="quotecodeheader"> Quote:</td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td class="quotebody">$1</td>
                                </tr>
                           </table>';

            // Check for [code] text
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[quote\](.+?)\[\/quote\]/is","$QuoteLayout", $Text);

            // Images
            // [img]pathtoimage[/img]
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[img\](.+?)\[\/img\]/", '<img src="$1">', $Text);

            // [img=widthxheight]image source[/img]
            $Text = preg_replace("/\[img\=([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)\](.+?)\[\/img\]/", '<img src="$3" height="$2" width="$1">', $Text);

            return $Text;
        }
?>
 <div id="form">  
 <div id="cgi">
<?php

$database[dbserver]="localhost";
$database[dbuser]="";
$database[dbname]="";
$database[dbpass]="";
$table ="comments";

$connect = mysql_connect($database['dbserver'], $database['dbuser'], $database['dbpass']);

$select= mysql_select_db($database['dbname']);

//connect to your database


//query comments for this page of this article
$inf = "SELECT * FROM `comments` WHERE page = '".stripslashes($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])."' ORDER BY time ASC";
$info = mysql_query($inf);
     if(!$info) die(mysql_error());

   $info_rows = mysql_num_rows($info);
if($info_rows > 0) {
   echo '<h5>Comments:</h5>';
   echo '<table width="95%">';

while($info2 = mysql_fetch_object($info)) {  
echo '<tr>'; 
echo '<td>"'.stripslashes($info2->subject).'" by: <a href="'.$info2->contact.'">'.stripslashes($info2->username).'</a></td> <td><div align="right"> @ '.date('h:i:s a', $info2->time).' on '.$info2->date.'</div></td>';
echo '</tr><tr>';
echo '<td colspan="2"> '.html_entity_decode(stripslashes($info2->comment)).' </td>';
echo '</tr>';
}//end while
echo '</table>';
echo '<hr width="95%" noshade>';
} else echo 'No comments for this page. Feel free to be the first <br>';

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  if(!addslashes($_POST['username'])) die('<u>ERROR:</u> you must enter a username to add a comment.');
  if(!addslashes($_POST['contact']))  die('<u>ERROR:</u> enter contact method in contact field.');
  if(!addslashes($_POST['subject']))  die('<u>ERROR:</u> enter a subject to your comment.');
  if(!addslashes($_POST['comment']))  die('<u>ERROR:</u> cannot add comment if you do not enter one!?');


//this is for a valid contact
  if(substr($_POST['contact'],0,7) != 'mailto:' && !strstr($_POST['contact'],'//')) {
              if(strstr($_POST['contact'],'@'))
                $_POST['contact'] = "mailto:".$_POST['contact']."";
              else
                $_POST['contact'] = "http://".$_POST['contact']."";
} //end valid contact

//try to prevent multiple posts and flooding...
$c = "SELECT * from `comments` WHERE ip = '".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."'";
  $c2 = mysql_query($c);
     while($c3 = mysql_fetch_object($c2)) {
      $difference = time() - $c3->time;
     if($difference < 300) die('<u>ALERT:</u> '.$c3->username.', You have already commented earlier; if you have a question, try the forums!<BR>');
} //end while
//add comment
$q ="INSERT INTO `comments` (article_id, page, date, time, username, ip, contact, subject, comment) VALUES ('".$_GET['id']."', '".$_POST['page']."', '".$_POST['date']."', '".$_POST['time']."', '".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['username']))."', '".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."', '".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['contact']))."', '".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($_POST['subject']))."', '".addslashes(htmlspecialchars(nl2br($_POST['comment'])))."')";

$q2 = mysql_query($q);
  if(!$q2) die(mysql_error());

//refresh page so they can see new comment
header('Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_POST['page'] . "#comments");
} else 
{  //display form
?>
<?php
$line_break=nl2br($_POST['text']);
echo $line;
?>
<form name="comments" action="<? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="page" value="<? echo($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="date" value="<? echo(date("F j, Y.")); ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="time" value="<? echo(time()); ?>">

<table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
   <tr>
      <td><div align="right">Username:   </div></td>
       <td><input name="username" type="text" size="30" value=""></td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><div align="right">Contact:   </div></td>
      <td><input type="text" name="contact" size="30" value=""> <i>(email or url)</i></td>
    </tr>
    <td><div align="right">Subject:   </div></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="subject" size="30" value=""></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><div align="right">Comment:   </div></td>
      <td><textarea name="comment" cols="45" rows="5" wrap="VIRTUAL"></textarea></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <td colspan="2"><input type="reset" value="Reset Fields">     
        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add Comment"></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>
<?
} // end else
?> 
 </div>
</div>
 <div class="style49" id="link33"><a href="Contact Us.html">Contact Us</a></div>
<div class="style49" id="links22"><a href="about us.html">About Us</a></div>
 <div class="style49" id="rights"><a href="index.html">Home</a></div> 
 <div class="style44" id="message">
  <a href="Contact Us.html" class="style45">Contact Us</a></div>
 <div class="style49" id="beauty"><a href="battle page.html">Battles Grounds</a></div>
</div>


<div id="footer"></div>
</div>

</body>

</html>
<? ob_flush(); ?>

WoW Me Web Girl 0 Light Poster · Answer 4 · 2010-03-12T11:42:17+00:00

Hey, it works, i took that bbc function out and it works.
I think im in love with you.

thanks so much

Excizted 67 Posting Whiz · Answer 5 · 2010-03-13T16:10:11+00:00

lol and use code tags next time, then we people might love you too :D

WoW Me Web Girl 0 Light Poster · Answer 6 · 2010-03-13T16:30:32+00:00

in my code what can i do so that my comments page will only accept 50 comments

and maybe add the next one 101 to a next page-->
umm

what im trying to say is

I want to use a code that allows me to control how many comments that came be submitted on my comments.php page. And maybe after 50 or so it will transfer them to a new page once you hit the next button and so on and so fourth
and have a back button. also.
ive seen it on forum like this one but have not a clue how to set it up.

Excizted 67 Posting Whiz · Answer 7 · 2010-03-13T16:39:43+00:00

use LIMIT in your SQL Query.
Google is your friend too, http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30884

liamfriel 4 Junior Poster · Answer 8 · 2010-03-15T15:12:29+00:00

If you google "Pagination in PHP" or even search for it on this site - it will give you a rough idea of how to achieve what you want.